damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

Fuck all of these people

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You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.

It took me five minutes to throw this together, print, and have available at the quizzo my husband and I run in rural VT. We gave out nearly 50. Doing something to help is sometimes really as easy as this!

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

I personally do not want to hear shit from anyone about why politicians cannot get their asses into the streets when as a public school teacher my daily assumption is I could be gunned down in an act of violence we have decided is societally permissible. Grow up and get out there.

They should probably get used to it because theyre not allowed to enjoy society ever again

I will in fact be going scorched earth during my upcoming WWII unit. It is now a full comparative past and present analysis.

If we are going to treat this as a sort of civil war, then one thing I would like everyone to keep in mind is the victors of the last one were nowhere near harsh enough in their dealings with the lead traitors.

The Iranian people have a right to self determination and a just, liberated, pluralistic society under civilian rule. They also have the right to be free from US sanctions, US & Israeli intelligence interference & military violence.

Fuck yes let's fucking go

Every day, you can take one tangible action by donating a small amount or just boosting one of the items in here. Also, it's not on the list but Immigrant Defense Network is based out of Minnesota and doing good work: immigrantdefensenetwork.org

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

yes—and also, it is not everyone's job to act like a politician! if you're not a politician, it's actually not your job at all. so if you think ice should be abolished, don't give up on saying it. politicians will never be brave unless they're scared of the rest of us.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

they say a picture is worth a thousand words. in this case the words are "get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get fucked lol get f ... (1/3)

I'm trying to get "Fuck ICE" to catch on as a "Go Birds" style greeting for Minnesota.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

any political project that does not have as its goal the destruction of the system that produced that video is not worth a moment of your time

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

I gasped

Oh my god

You don’t have to reach for Central American analogies. The California state legislature put a bounty on Indigenous lives and then deputized small crews to exterminate California Natives. Death squads created the USA.

If people actually stopped to feel their feelings, it would break society apart. I would love to see what we'd build from the rubble.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Hey so this modern terror squad is doing exactly what they were hired to do. This has always been about terrorizing residents into submission. He didn't cozy up to dictatorship fans for shits & giggles. He idolized them and wants to be one.

Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.

in MN: anything short of prosecution for murder is capitulation to authoritarianism. in DC: anything short of denying every last vote for ICE funding is a violation of their oaths of office

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

Starting to think the Hague is not enough.

New Enrigue, new Kang, new Erdrich, new Saunders, new Mahajan...I will survive 2026 on books alone.

feel crazy on here sometimes with other Canadians acting like Canada doesn't have just as big of a racism/xenophobia problem that is beyond the boiling point -- much of the grievance directed to the US is at 51st state rhetoric and less reflection on the actual gap between political realities

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh what the fuck

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Up at 5am listening to Spanish news because my stupid fucking country did war crimes again

That time of year again!